The remarkable life of trailblazing feminist icon Alice Anderson, mechanic, inventor, businesswoman and unconventional member of the Lyceum Club (an arts, literature and social activism group for women only) is being brought to loving life by La Mama in collaboration with Three Birds Theatre and The Shift Theatre.
Set mostly in the roaring 1920s, this spirited production takes place in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, the home of Victoria’s first all-girl garage. At its helm was Anderson, a woman ahead of her time, whose life was cut tragically short aged 29 by a gunshot wound to the head, supposedly self-inflicted while cleaning her firearm.
